People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone--by teasing, for example.

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.

There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.

Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion.

Only ideas won by walking have any value.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.